ylvania to enjoy a few hours of conversation and fun.Our flight to Italy began on time at 6:25 pm but at 8:00 pm the pilots reported a snafu in in the onboard weather radar. They diverted the flight over Bangor, Maine, and headed us back to Philly. There we spent another 3.5 hours waiting on the plane as they swapped out the weather radar on the aircraft.
We finally headed for Venice again at 1:25am (EST), 6 hours behind schedule. Our second attempt to get to Italy was uneventful and we arrived in Venice at about 3pm Tuesday afternoon.
We hopped a water boat for downtown Venice arriving at St. Marks square to meet Kathleen's sister, Sharon, and her husband, Charlie. Waiting for us in our hotel room was a chilled bottle of Processco (a sparkling white wine popular in Italy). We toasted our arrival in Venice!
Our first night of dining, we enjoyed pasta with mussels, genocchi and a bottle of local Venician Chardonnay and Chianti.
The second day in Venice we made the customary tourist stops, visiting St. Marks square and Basilica, Doge Palace and Realto Bridge. Along the way we stopped at several wine bars and sampled red and white wines from the area. Our second night we enjoyed pasta with olive oil and hot sauce, bruscetta, local fish dishes and of course, Classico Chianti and Brunello. We finished our Venician stay with a gondola ride along the back canals where we saw the palaces of Marco Polo and Casanova.
On Thursday, we hopped a train to Vincenza to meet our niece and her husband. As evening approached we visited downtown Vincenza where the entire town turns out to stroll the streets and enjoy the twilight. What an experience!
Later we drove to the country to feast on local cuisine and wine. This was a true non-tourist spot where the room was filled with laughter, bottomless liter jugs of red wine and past
a. We ended our day enjoying an Italian star filled sky, before heading for bed.
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